The Law and Regulation of Solicitors: Management Skills

The Law and Regulation of Solicitors: Management Skills provides a comprehensive guide to regulatory and compliance subjects for law firms, covering a wide range of management topics and referencing key legislation. It includes learning activities and templates for internal AML audits, making it an essential reference guide for those running a law firm.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 616 pages
Publication date: 30 May 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

The Law and Regulation of Solicitors: Management Skills is a comprehensive resource that draws on the author's direct experience as a regulatory decision maker and her subsequent time teaching legal services professionals. It encompasses a wide range of regulatory and compliance subjects, providing a context and expectations of legal regulators such as the SRA and CLC in an easily referenceable format. Each section covers material on different management subjects intended to be used by senior and aspiring management in law firms, with reference to key legislation in the regulation of solicitors and other lawyers, example policies featured within the texts, and an extensive range of template internal AML audits. The book is an important reference guide for those running a law firm, with a wide range of learning activities in each section to develop staff understanding of ethics, regulation, and compliance in legal services. It references the primary regulatory system of the SRA, with specific examples of their supervisory practice, including how to respond to an SRA investigation. Additionally, it provides an authoritative chapter on the legislation underlying the regulation and supervision of those regulated by the CLC. This manual is essential for the necessary management skills required for legal professionals, management, COLPs and COFAs in law firms, as well as solicitors, barristers, licensed conveyancers, and paralegals.

Weight: 874g
Dimension: 248 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781526524577